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M. J. RIVARD.

END GATE. No. 265,440. Patented Oct-3,1882.

IJNiTE STATES PATENT GFFICE.

MAXIM J. RIVARD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CALVIN K. BRANDON, OF SAME PLACE.

EN D-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,440, dated October 3, 1882.

Application filed May 17, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that.I, MAXIM J. RIVARD,.ot Detroit, in the county of WVayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tail-Board s t'orWagons or Carts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

, The-nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction and operation of tail-hoards for wagons or carts, the invention being especially adapted to the dumping-carts.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and operation of the parts, as more fully hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the rear section of a cart or wagon body with my device attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan. of the rear end of such bodywith the tail-board removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective elevation of the tailhoard with its attachments.

In theaccompanying drawings, A represents a cart-body supported upon a proper frame, and ot' the usual construction. The rear crossgirt, B, of the frame projects beyond the floor ot' the body, as shown in Fig. 2, and upon its upper face are secured the two plates to, with central holes through the same, as shown.

The tail-boardGis of the usual construction, and upon its outer face are secured the irons b,terminatingintheround pointedand slightly- (No model.)

curved ends 0, and these irons are provided with rigid offsets or shoulders (I, terminating on the line of the lower edge of the tail-board. In practice the curved pointed ends of these irons are engaged in the holes in the plates on the body-frame, and the tail-board elevated in position and secured in the usual manner by pins, springs, or otherwise. When it is desired to remove such tail-board it will he noticed that with a pressure of the load against the inner side of such tail-board as ordinarily constructed it would be necessary to lift the pinsot' the irons out of their engagement with the holes in the plates; but with this construction after the fastening at the top of the tail-board is removed the shoulders upon the irons form a fulcrum, so that as the upper edge of the tailboard is pressed upward .-neh fulcrum lifts the pins out of their engagement with the plates, thereby avoiding any necessity of raising the tail-board-a difficult operation sometimes, when the body is loaded with coalorother analogous things.

WVhat I claim as myinvention is- The combination, with the wagon-body A, of the apertured plates a, the end-gate O, the irons I), having books or lugsc, and shoulders (I in the rear of the hooks or lugs, substantially as described.

MAXIM J. RIVARD.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. J. SoULLY. 

